I got an e-mail about this a while ago, and while it is definitely a neat idea, I’m not sure that native iOS APIs can really do it justice. Having that giant red bar at the top of the screen can get annoying fast, I’m sure, and my iPhone 3GS runs out of RAM so often that I can’t really rely on Where is my Phone to stay on in the background. Read More

By Chris Hall on September 3rd, 2010 Where Is My Phone now supports multitasking. I love my iPhone to death, but more often than not, I have no idea where it is. The problem that I have is that my lifeline to the outside world is smaller than the size of my hand, and easily finds itself in the strangest of places. Sometimes it’s sitting in my jeans from the night before, sometimes it’s under my bed sheets, sometimes I leave it in the bathroom; it’s really just a crapshoot. The app that was supposed to solve my problem once and for all was Where Is My Phone. The feature set sounded pretty great, all you would have to do is make a whistle and your iPhone would chime back. If you are alone in the house and can’t call yourself to get the phone to ring, this would be a Read More